Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

Morning! Week 71 on the countdown to pensiondom ...

- ingredients are sitting on the kitchen counter to make chocolate cookies after client has been so are the butterbeans soaking overnight.
- eggshells are sitting in a little tray, going to go into the halogen oven while its warming up for the cookies, so I can put them on the garden
- birdbath refilled.
- kettle is in the window warming up

And to do:
- 3 personal emails
- financial admin - there's quite a bit, actually maybe 5 items
- get my talktalk a/c online - there's a potential 10% off each bill if you do that and a bit of monthly faff
- cleaning the public bits of the house!
- client work - 1.5 hours, delayed from Friday when I was in Ypres.
- Linked In! I think I'll delay that till this afternoon, when I want to just faff around a bit after client leaves. Productive faffing is always good :j
- talking of which, more garden weeding.

edinburgher

KC, may I ask why you're baking your eggshells before they go into the garden? Mrs E's parents put them straight into the compost, is this not a good idea?

Karmacat

Erm ... I often *don't* cook them, but only when they've been drying in the fridge for a million years. As far as I understand it, the raw eggy bits that are leftover in eggshells are the sort of bits that attract rats? And since I had a rat a couple of years ago, I'm not going to chance it.

The other thing about putting them straight in the compost is that you're missing the chance to surround your favourite plants with sharp bits - they *say* slugs treat broken eggshells like barbed wire I don't quite believe it, or you have to have a *lot* of eggshells, but no harm in trying!

Talking of trying, my to-do list:
- 3 personal emails done two.
- financial admin - maybe 5 items done none!
- get my talktalk a/c online - there's a potential 10% off each bill if you do that .. done
- cleaning the public bits of the house! done
- client work - 1.5 hours, delayed from Friday when I was in Ypres. done
- Linked In! not yet.
- more garden weeding. not yet.

Hmm. Not bad, plenty left still to do tho

[Deleted User]

[STRIKE]Spending[/STRIKE] wasting too much time on Pinterest (my new best friend:o) I fleetingly saw something about using empty pistachio shells to deter slugs from plants. From the photo they looked really decorative as well as being practical (but everything looks decorative on Pinterest:rotfl:). There's more chance you'll have a readier supply of eggshells than pistachio shells but might be worth thinking about. Will see if I can find the reference again. I don't need much of an excuse to go on there again do I? .

edinburgher

Ah, I see.

Mrs E's folks have 3 cats, at least 2 of which are prolific hunters. I pity the rat that decides to go for their compost heap :eek:

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edinburgher wrote: »

Ah, I see.

Mrs E's folks have 3 cats, at least 2 of which are prolific hunters. I pity the rat that decides to go for their compost heap :eek:

My cat is a prolific hunter:mad: and invariably brings home at least one rabbit and mouse every day. Plus there are always feathers at various places round the garden. But even he has never caught a rat (to my knowledge) and he usually brings his trophies home, often still alive to run/hop round the kitchen:eek:. We saw rats once near our neighbour's barn(they keep several horses and have plenty of feed in there) but our cat never brought one home. I read somewhere that cats are very wary of rats.

Karmacat

Wow! To having three cats *and* to having such a successful hunter :eek: thats pretty impressive! There're a lot of cats round here (I like chatting to them, but they then try to use my garden as a toilet cos I'm friendly ) but even so, that rat found its way into my loftspace

I've done the third personal contact thing I wanted to do :j *and* what I didn't write down in the list apart from the "eggshells in while warming bit :rotfl: - chocolate biscuits :j are in the halogen cooking merrily.

CBC - go for the pinterest linkie

Karmacat

DECLUTTERING
76 worn out pair of socks - the only trouble is, I'd just put them through the washing machine :rotfl:

I'd like to include the ex-strawberry plants and the dead grass I just pulled up, but I don't think I'd better

Karmacat

- 3 personal emails done two.
done all three.

- financial admin - maybe 5 items done none!
done one, sort of, that I hadn't even remembered plus, actually, some of it just needed to be filed. I need to work on the ISAs, and when they're done I need to work on the pensions. But I'm going to do all of that at/near my equivalent of lunchtime - the main parts of the day need to be focussed on earning money by writing etc.

- get my talktalk a/c online - there's a potential 10% off each bill if you do that .. done

- cleaning the public bits of the house! done

- client work - 1.5 hours, delayed from Friday when I was in Ypres. done

- Linked In! not yet.
Oops ... no

- more garden weeding. not yet.
Yes! **airpunch**

[Deleted User]

I love the ' cleaning the public bits of the house'.
Sounds as if you live in a Stately Home:rotfl:

P.S. Here's the slug-preventing link. Several ideas but by the sound of it they aren't all that effective:(

http://www.desperategardener.com/2011/06/natural-slug-control.html